Some people are just no damn good

You read me right. Some people leave me shaking my head, wondering why in the world God allowed them to live and move and breathe as long as He did, long enough to commit atrocities of unspeakable kinds.

First on my list of The NDG: The Campbell family of Pennsylvania who named their three year old son Adolph Hitler Campbell in honor of everyone's favorite Nazi. They gave another of their children, a daughter, the middle names of Aryan and Nation so that tells you their elevator doesn't go all the way to the top anyway.

Not only is saddling a child with the name of the 20th century's most evil man evil in and of itself, the family is all bothered by their local grocery store bakery's refusal to write "Happy Birthday Adolph Hitler" on the boy's cake.

I am not making this up.

Next on my list is a father from Washington who raped his then nine-year-old daughter, videotaped the vile act, and distributed the images around the world via the internet. The cowardly bastard then ran and hid in China before U.S. authorities extradited him back to America to face charges. The only bright spot in this story is that he's likely to spend the rest of his life in prison with no possibility of parole. The title of "father" needs to be stripped from this monster.

Lastly, there's the not-s0-dearly departed Ottis Toole who, posthumously, has been declared the official killer of Adam Walsh, son of America's Most Wanted founder John Walsh more than twenty years ago. Toole was old enough to know better when he snatched the six-year-old boy from a Florida mall, cut off his head, and dumped him in a swamp. Toole himself died in prison a few years back while being held on other charges. Tell me again why we ban torture in such extreme circumstances?

My religion teaches that God alone is the judge of all people and that it's not up to us to decide who lives or who dies. But I wonder sometimes whether God turns away as our society goes after its vilest members, perhaps not pleased with our Wild West legal system but nonetheless resigned to let us have one.

May He bless and bring peace to the lives of all children harmed by adults, and may He bestow some much needed wisdom upon the fools who think Adolph Hitler's name should live on in any capacity.